session_start() fails

tunghana

this is what i get when starting session

Warning: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at c:\inetpub\wwwroot\session_test.php:4) in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\session_test.php on line 10

can you help?

thank you

neuromancer

Yes, call session_start() before you output anything

I assume your script looks like this

<?
session_start();
?>
...

Change it to this

<?
session_start();
?>

tunghana

this is all i have

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>

</body>

i still got the error

Warning: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at c:\apache\htdocs\phpsessiontest.php:9) in c:\apache\htdocs\phpsessiontest.php on line 10

Warning: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at c:\apache\htdocs\phpsessiontest.php:9) in c:\apache\htdocs\phpsessiontest.php on line 10

neuromancer

Are you dumb or did you not read my post? Change your code to look like this

<?
session_start();
?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>

<body>

</body>

neuromancer

Actually, your not dumb. both my examples removed the HTML tags I had.

In any case, you need to move the session start to the TOP of your script because cookies can't be sent after data.

Also see ob_start() or output buffering section of the php manual

tunghana

it's working now, thank you sir, and sorry for being so dumb...

tung